WASPI women face losing £35,000 each after DWP compensation rejected

WASPI women face losing £35,000 after the Labour Party government REJECTED calls for a payout worth £2,950 from the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ). One woman has slammed the Labour Party government, saying its decision has cost her £35,000.

Ministers on Tuesday confirmed they would deny payments to the 3.6 million women born in the 1950s who were not properly informed of the rise in state pension age. The decision has sparked widespread fury among campaigners.

Jenny Cox, 71, told Express.co.uk this weekend: "I calculated that I’d missed out on at least £35,000 a while ago. Wishfully, I’d thought the DWP would catch up and repay their mistake. Always with women! And always far too late."

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"What is it with women Mr DWP? In your eyes, we’re subordinate to men. We are entitled to the lives we have paid for decades, too. In fact, my pension is over £200 less than my husband’s. How did this happen?" she went on to ask.

Lucy Powell, a Labour MP, told Sky’s Trevor Phillips on Sunday (December 22): “I was working in Parliament in 2011 when George Osborne made this big decision to really accelerate bringing forward the pension age for women, which is what really gave rise to this whole campaign.”

“We absolutely raised concerns at that time about bringing that forward so quickly," she said. “That was the thing that caused the campaign. What we were having to look at was this particular report that was looking at whether there was sufficient communication back in 2004.

“And we accepted that, and that’s why we apologised, that that wasn’t done properly. But what we didn’t do, and what we couldn’t agree to in the context of the public finances, but also as something that was proportionate to that finding about miscommunication from 2004 was a £10bn price tag.

“I really do understand people’s concern about this.”